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Bioriginal is a global leader in manufacturing natural nutritional foods, ingredients and supplements for food and beverage companies. For 25 years, Bioriginal has carved out a niche by scientifically combining ingredients from all over the world, directly from the source, to create innovative and efficacious solutions. Developing proprietary methods and systems, Bioriginal provides customized turnkey solutions for our customers that help them compete and win in a highly competitive space. Bioriginal's wide portfolio includes plant- and marine-based oils, seeds & grains, protein products, nutraceuticals and botanical ingredients. Bioriginal is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada with facilities throughout the USA, Europe and Asia. Bioriginal is a member of the Cooke family of companies.

The Canadian Light Source (CLS) is Canada's national synchrotron reseach facility, where intense beams of light are generated to probe the nature and structure of matter. The CLS makes synchrotron-based analytical techniques available to researchers from academic, industrial and government instiutions around the world in a wide variety of areas including: earth and environmental sciences, agricultural research, life sciences and health research, proteomics and macromolecular crystallography, chemical and materials sciences, natural resources and energy, nanotechnology, manufacturing, and information and communications technology. Access to the CLS can be obtained through a competitive peer-review process or purchased through the CLS Industrial Science group. The CLS mandate includes active industrial participation with innovative commercial research access, clear intellectual property policies and scientists dedicated to promoting industry involvement.

Contango is a hybrid of a consulting company and contract research and development firm. Many of the consulting projects we engage in benefit from confirmatory testing and optimization in our laboratories and pilot facilities. Not only do we conceptually design and plan passive water treatment systems such as constructed wetlands, we also aid with regulatory and licensing processes and perform the necessary piloting and optimization in our pilot facilities to ensure their predictability and robustness upon implementation.
Our combination of dedicated warm and cold-climate pilot facilities uniquely position Contango to develop and test customized bioremediation solutions for a wide range of climates. Our in-house microbiology laboratories give us insight into how to optimize biological processes for your benefit.

The Feeds Innovation Institute is a research and development service dedicated to capturing economic opportunities in the domestic feed value chain and mandated to draw together a wide cross-section of scientific disciplines and industry interests focused on feed product development. It brings together three stakeholder groups – the U of S, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, and the feed and livestock industry – to provide industry acumen, research and development capability, proactive solutions, organization development, an extensive resource and a knowledge base to capture opportunities in an increasingly sophisticated and demanding animal feedstuffs world market. The Feeds Innovation Institute operates as the contract research service of the Canadian Feed Research Centre.

InfraReady is an innovated, international industrial food ingredient supplier that helps customers achieve “The Good we Get from Grain”. Our mission is to create value in cereals, pluses an oilseeds through innovated, quality, and commitment.”

Maxxam Analytics International Corporation, an OMERS Private Equity portfolio company, is Canada's largest independent analytical laboratory services company, with expertise in environmental laboratory services, petroleum services, food safety and sciences, and pharmaceutical, forensic and DNA services. The company has approximately 1,800 employees and now operates at 34 laboratory and service centre locations.

Long before biodiesel became a familiar word to most people, farmers in the community of Foam Lake Saskatchewan realized that the small amount of damaged seed that was produced every year could be used to make fuel for their equipment. With this realization, Milligan Biofuels was born. Investment from the local Producers and technical help from Agriculture Canada and the University of Saskatchewan started to move Milligan Biofuels down the path to becoming both a pioneer and a key player in Western Canada’s biofuels industry.Today there is a healthy demand for biodiesel world-wide and Western Canada is no exception. Milligan Biofuels’ Foam Lake plant underwent an aggressive growth program in 2011 in order to capture the opportunities of the expanding biodiesel demand. The plant is now capable of producing over 20 million liters of biodiesel per year that exceeds all of the quality requirements of its customers.

The National Research Council Canada (NRC) works with clients and partners to develop and deploy solutions to meet Canada's current and future industrial and societal needs. In Saskatchewan, NRC provides technical services, technology development support, strategic R&D collaborations, licensing opportunities, credible scientific advice and access to specialized facilities. Areas of specialty include applied genomics, cell technology and tissue culture services, and plant hormone profiling. NRC also provides access to various facilities and specialized equipment for genomic technologies including next-generation sequencing, mass spectrometry, plant and cell growth and plant hormone profiling. NRC's partners include organizations and individuals from industry, academia, and domestic and foreign government agencies. Together with its partners, NRC helps strengthen Canada's innovations and grows global market share for Canadian industry.

PAMI is a research and development organization that operates on annual revenues of $11 - 12 million, consisting of base-grants (10 - 15%) from the owning provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and contract revenues (85 - 90%) from industry firms and funding agencies. PAMI's roots are in agriculture, but it has expanded to embrace opportunities in transportation, military, and other sectors in industry where its capabilities can add value. PAMI has staff of 75 including animal and crop scientists, engineers, agronomists, technologists, technicians, and administrative staff. PAMI operates out of 3 sites; two in Saskatchewan and one in Manitoba.

The Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre Inc. (Food Centre) is a not-for-profit organization and is a leader in providing expertise and resources to the agri-food industry in Saskatchewan. Our expertise include ingredient and product development, inspected incubation facilities, pulse innovation through extrusion, food safety training, and pathfinding. The Food Centre operates a 10,000 sq. ft. interim processing facility on the U of S Campus and a 43,000 sq. ft facility on Schuyler Street. These two manufacturing facilities are Saskatchewan's only commercial incubation centre for food processing. They are certified and inspected to allow agri-businesses to access local and export markets. The Food Centre's extrusion technology is also unique to Saskatchewan. This technology utilizes agricultural based products such as cereals, pulses and proteins to develop and test market consumer foods to ingredients and biodegradable biopolymers. By building on the province's renewable resources, sectors such as the bio-fuels and feed industries can explore opportunities in byproduct utilization and the development of bioplastics using extrusion technology.

The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is one of Canada’s leading providers of applied research, development and demonstration (RD&D), and technology commercialization. Our primary business focus is that of an innovation enabler, helping clients solve technology problems, make improvements, seize opportunities, maintain competitiveness and increase productivity.
SRC enables and accelerates biotechnology innovation across the core resource sectors of mining, industry and agriculture. We deliver a broad portfolio of genomic, microbiology and biomanufacturing services, as well as DNA testing services, to support a sustainable agriculture industry in Canada. Our team of scientists and technologists is diverse, encompassing a broad range of scientific disciplines. Through the integration of these various areas of expertise, we have become one of the best resources for sustainable agriculture solutions. We achieve this through research, development and the transfer of innovative scientific and technological solutions, applications and services.
We provide sustainable services and solutions to over 1,500 clients worldwide in the agriculture, biotechnology, mining, minerals and energy sectors, as well as the environmental considerations that are important across each sector.

Ag-West Bio Inc.

Funding for Ag-West Bio is provided by the Government of Canada and Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture through the Canadian Agriculture Partnership (CAP), a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.